Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of that is the fact that the society and type of education they have received both led them to expect wage employment — probably in an office … . |
| 2 | ’ But we had fun together , George and I. That was all he wanted , all he ever led me to expect . |
| 3 | My solicitor told me to expect at least four years because of my previous convictions : I 've got deception , deception , fraud , grievous bodily harm , assault , malicious wounding , drugs , deception and then again deception . |
| 4 | " Assistant Commissioner Seddon told me to expect you , " he said . |
| 5 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 6 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 7 | I told her to expect you . ’ |
| 8 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( CI No 2,124 ) . |
| 9 | Earlier this month SunSoft Inc president , Ed Zander , told us to expect a version of its Unix operating system to feature on the PowerPC RISC ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 10 | Fielding had told me to expect trouble from Lorne on several counts . |
| 11 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 12 | There is a streak of sadism in his performance which leads us to expect an answering streak of masochism in Katherine . |
| 13 | This is a good background , and the playing style and ensemble are as secure as it leads us to expect . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , each leads us to expect the arms race which experience confirms . |
| 15 | VIIa ) leads us to expect 4a 1 + 1a 2 + 2 b , + 2 b2 vibrations . |
| 16 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
| 17 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
| 18 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
| 19 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
| 20 | Where the indicators of a thriving community life are ostensibly absent , they may even try to create the ‘ community ’ which their preconceptions of rural life have led them to expect . |
| 21 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 22 | Instead of finding there a source of order which their theories would lead them to expect , they are shocked and insulted to find yet another example of lack of strength . |
| 23 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 24 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 25 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
| 26 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
| 27 | Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect . |
| 28 | It was not the kind of approach to the situation that the survey briefing had led him to expect , and Rostov realised that he was going to have to adjust his notions about standards of behaviour . |
| 29 | The room was comfortable , though scarcely as ‘ princely ’ as the guidebook had led him to expect . |
| 30 | On the basis of this information , the law of reciprocal proportions tells us to expect that carbon and hydrogen combine in the weight ratio , 12:4 . |